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Colorado Public School Takes Students on a Field Trip to the Shooting Range.

School officials in Pueblo County, Colorado are bucking the anti-gun trend and recently approved a field trip for middle school students to a local shooting range where they learned about gun safety and how to properly handle a firearm. The gun safety and marksman group Project Appleseed, an activity of The Revolutionary War Veterans Association, […]

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ATF v. ARES Armor More Than A War of Words .

Around noon on Saturday, the ATF escalated what had to that point been a war of words with Oceanside, California-based Ares Armor.That’s when ATF agents raided Ares’ Oceanside location and seized what we’ve been told was as many as 6,000 of the Ares/EP Armory lowers that are at the heart of the matter. No Ares […]

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Should CT Police Confiscate Guns If Ordered To Do So? A Law Enforcement Perspective.

Sgt. Patrick Hayes writes: There has been talk that the only way Connecticut can enforce their new gun laws is by confiscation. Of course the State is saying they don’t intend to do that – just like all the anti-gun folks always say “Nobody is after your guns.” Should the Police enforce these laws? The […]

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Ares Armor Update: The Skinny on EP Armory Polymer 80% Lower Receivers.

At the moment, we still have no idea what exactly the ATF is investigating Ares Armor for. Speculation is rampant, and the two main competing theories are that it either has something to do with the EP Armory polymer 80% lower receivers, or a suspicion that Ares Armor is “helping” people manufacture complete firearms without […]

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Oceanside: Gun store owner files injuction halting ATF raid.

OCEANSIDE, Calif. – The owner of an Oceanside store that sells various gun parts to build a rifle from scratch refused to turn over his customer list when he was raided by federal agents Wednesday. Dimitrios Karras, owner of Ares Armor, said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents were investigating their business, […]

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New Study: Majority of Young People Reject Gun Control.

A new Pew Study has discovered that despite President Obama’s repeated claim that 90+% of Americans want increased gun control, the majority of millennials oppose further gun control measures. The study reveals that millennials, those born between 1981 and 1996, largely reject the call for increased gun control 50-48 percent. While the margin may be […]

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Today’s gun buyers aren’t who they used to be — welcome aboard women and city folk!

The stereotypical gun owner in America is evolving. From the rancher in Texas who sleeps with a rifle next to his bed to the Democratic female business executive in Washington, D.C. who wants to feel protected while walking home from the bus stop, the last year of gun purchases shows a new demographic of Second […]

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Photo of the day: This is what happens when you shoot 300 BLK in a 5.56 rifle.

This shooter was lucky. If that hadn’t been a bull barrel that thing would have split apart like a banana. Apparently the mag blew out and the firearm didn’t go unpunished. Read more… Also follow us on Instagram or Twitter. Buttons are on the right side of the page. #firearms #firearmstraining  #shooting #shootingsports #guns #handguns […]

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Rumor Check: Are Connecticut Police Refusing to Enforce Gun Laws?

An Examiner article claims 250 law enforcement officers in Connecticut signed a petition not to enforce state laws on gun registration. But the article seems to dead-end after a five-minute internet search. “I’m not even sure what laws they are talking about,” Lieutenant Paul Vance, spokesman for the Connecticut State Police told TheBlaze. “I like […]

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The military’s new Google Glass streams TONS of futuristic battle data.

Google Glass-esque headgear could soon become the newest piece of standard-issue equipment for U.S. soldiers, and give them the ability to digitally track friendly and enemy locations, display 3D maps of battlefields, and watch live video from drones — all in real-time. United Kingdom-based BAE systems built the Q-Warrior high-tech headset to live-stream more data […]

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